  All 2003 Corvettes will feature special 50th anniversary emblems to commemorate a half century of Corvette history.

Corvettes is wheel color. For this model only standard cast aluminum wheels are painted a champagne color to celebrate Corvette’s "golden" anniversary.
   All Anniversary Special Editions come with a Shale color interior (and a Shale top on convertibles). In response to consumer complaints, and portending what will be seen in the next generation Corvette, the entire interior, including the instrument pod and dash, is uniform in color. C5 instrument pods and related dash trim has always been black regardless of what color the remainder of the interior was.
   Other interior features unique to Anniversary Special Editions include padded door armrests and padded door pull grips. Again, these foreshadow what we will see in